12 EES Key Points

Laki 1783-84  The Laki eruption started in  June 1783 and lasted for 8 months.  A cloud of sulphur dioxide moved over Europe causing a hig...

While Australia sits in the middle of a tectonic plate, this merely considers the major fault lines of the globe.  Australia has a number...

In Kobe on January 17 1995, a magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck, resulting in over 6000 deaths and hundreds of billions of dollars damage.  So...

This will be 2 parts.  One will look at esrthquake damage in general, and then more specifically at the damage caused to built structures us...

Overview On Boxing Day 2004 a magnitude 9.0 earthquake triggered the sudden upthrust of 1000 km of convergent plate boundary as shown belo...

Poison gas - Lake Nyos 1987     As this region of Africa has been subject to rifting the area was volcanic. Lake Nyos is a crater lake tha...

Damage from lava Heimaey 1973 In 1973 the Edfell volcano erupted behind the town of Heimay in Iceland. Initially the town...